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Prostate cancer ranks among the most common cancers affecting men worldwide. Despite significant advancements in available therapies, a critical challenge persists: preventing the disease from progressing to its most dangerous and treatment-resistant stage. Addressing this issue, a multidisciplinary team of researchers and doctors, led by scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (IRB), has made a groundbreaking discovery. They have developed an innovative computational tool named Vini, designed to predict the most effective drug combinations for treating castration-resistant prostate cancer. The ultimate aim of this tool is to halt the progression of the disease to its deadly, therapy-resistant phase. This pioneering research was recently published in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports.

Continuing the previously initiated research under the guidance of Professor Željko Svedružić († April 20, 2023), the scientific team from the University of Rijeka and the Center for Informatics  and Computing at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia, has successfully applied for and secured funding for the implementation of the EHPC-BEN-2023B11-013 project on the LUMI supercomputer. This exceptionally powerful system, the HPE Cray EX, with an installed power of 0.3091 Exaflops, is located at the EuroHPC center CSC in Finland and proudly holds the status of the third most powerful supercomputer globally.

The objective of the EBSI-NE consortium is to support the development and adoption of the EBSI network at the European level by increasing the number of validator nodes in the production network and the provision of support services for all relevant EBSI stakeholders.

The aim of the platform DAP is to create a democratic, trustworthy and efficient infrastructure for scholarly publishing to support the European Research Area, Open Research Europe and the Digital Europe Programme.

This unique initiative brings together researchers from the Centre for Informatics and Computing at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, along with experts from NGI Trublo, Moon Code, and HashNET.

The Center for Informatics and Computing (CIR) of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in cooperation with the Juelich supercomputer center from Germany and the RIKEN research center from Japan has gained access to the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan, currently the second most powerful supercomputer in the world according to the list of the Top500 fastest computers in the world.

A team of scientists from the Center for Informatics and Computin (CIR) of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) together with oncologists from KBC Sestre Milosrdnica, under the leadership of Dr. Draška Tomića, uses the Vini application to find new therapies against prostate cancer.

The National Competence Centers in the framework of EuroHPC Phase 2 (EuroCC 2) project started on January 1, 2023 as a continuation of the two-year EuroCC project. During the three years of the project, the network of national competence centers for high-performance computing in 33 member states of EuroHPC JU will be improved, with the aim of providing a portfolio of services adapted to the respective national needs of industry, scientific-academic community and public administration.

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